A House committee will open a public hearing Wednesday on a bill blocking local units of government from maintaining regulations on possession and use of switchblades and butterfly knives. The move to ...

DENVER – The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...

A couple that had traveled aboard a Southwest Airlines flight in November is now looking for answers regarding an alarming ...

Once overshadowed by the hot-button gun rights debate, laws restricting knife sales and possession are the new "second front" in the battle to preserve Second Amendment rights. The issue has gained ...

DENVER (AP) — Switchblades and gravity knives that can be flung open from a concealing handle will soon be legal in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law Thursday a bipartisan bill to end a ...

At Swords & Dreams Reptile Rescue in West Allis, owner Tom McNeil sells lots of knives of nearly every size and description. Until this year, though, his line did not include switchblades, "out the ...

A knife is not simply a cutting instrument. There are dozens of types of knives, from Arkansas toothpicks to X-Actos. Keeping track of them all and their legality is not easy since knives are ...

Switchblade legalization is cutting the muster at the Colorado statehouse. Senate Bill 8 passed the House Judiciary Committee, 11-1, Thursday afternoon. The bill goes next to the House floor where, if ...

DENVER — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical "West Side Story" and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers ...